contract

an agreement between two or more parties for the doing or not doing of something specified.

2.

an agreement enforceable by law.

3.

the written form of such an agreement.

4.

the division of law dealing with contracts.

5.

Also called contract bridge. a variety of bridge in which the side that wins the bid can earn toward game only that number of tricks named in the contract, additional points being credited above the line.

1. See agreement. 10.Contract,compress,concentrate,condense imply retaining original content but reducing the amount of space occupied. Contract means to cause to draw more closely together: to contract a muscle.Compress suggests fusing to become smaller by means of fairly uniform external pressure: to compress gases into liquid form.Concentrate implies causing to gather around a point: to concentrate troops near an objective; to concentrate one's strength.Condense implies increasing the compactness, or thickening the consistency of a homogeneous mass: to condense milk. It is also used to refer to the reducing in length of a book or the like.

contract

verb (kənˈtrækt)

1.

to make or become smaller, narrower, shorter, etc: metals contract as the temperature is reduced

2.

(ˈkɒntrækt), when intr, sometimes foll by for; when tr, may take an infinitive. to enter into an agreement with (a person, company, etc) to deliver (goods or services) or to do (something) on mutually agreed and binding terms, often in writing

3.

to draw or be drawn together; coalesce or cause to coalesce

4.

(transitive) to acquire, incur, or become affected by (a disease, liability, debt, etc)

5.

(transitive) to shorten (a word or phrase) by the omission of letters or syllables, usually indicated in writing by an apostrophe

6.

(phonetics) to unite (two vowels) or (of two vowels) to be united within a word or at a word boundary so that a new long vowel or diphthong is formed